Martech

JUNE 6, 2023

Customer data, AI, marketing automation and analytics are must-haves for any martech stack and several companies are now looking to sell them all at once. If you have a couple of products from one company, they’re likely already selling you on the benefit of adding a third or fourth. And to be fair, it sometimes is a smart move.

X-functional

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Percentage of revenue from existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, repeat orders, expanded contracts, etc.). Cost of selling as a percentage of revenue generated. You can’t control how much this salesperson sells -- but you can tell her to increase her daily email output. Average contract value (ACV).

X-functional

Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Meanwhile, across the pond, Google is facing the possibility that it may be forced to sell part of its ad business after being charged with violating the European Union’s antitrust laws. In another blow for Google, an Adalytics study accused it of mis-selling video ads to marketers for the last three years.

Retail

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

When you start growing above 50 employees, and certainly get to 100, things change, you now have teams, which means you have functional leaders. Rather than having this feeling of disconnected functional areas, everyone in the company knows what to work on. To me, that’s what the cadence says. I learned this operating myself.

Finance

Sales Hacker

APRIL 14, 2020

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Contract

The 5% Institute

AUGUST 7, 2023

Such relationships not only lead to client loyalty but also open doors for potential upselling and cross-selling opportunities. The Art of Negotiation Negotiation skills are indispensable when managing contracts, pricing, and terms. The post 10 x Essential Account Manager Skills For Success appeared first on The 5% Institute.

Account management

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Lead generation X ? Social media integration X ? Free version X ? Lead generation X ? Social media integration X ? Free version X X 24/7 customer service ? Lead generation X ? X Mobile access ? ? Social media integration X ? Free version X ? Lead generation X ?

X-functional

SaaStr

JULY 24, 2019

This is pretty simple, but when I look at this industry, a lot of times what I see is organizations crafting pricing packages that would enable, for example, an enterprise-wide license, where an organization pays you X amount of money, and they have unlimited seats, unlimited usage. We sell contact center software. What does that mean?

X-functional

PandaDoc

MAY 8, 2023

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Service

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

” They will be able to point to measurable value X amount saved, or X user adoption, or X spend categories and a management, or X improvement in operational efficiency, whatever that may be. You can see it right behind you going across the bridge but can you see 10 X? It’s pretty crazy, isn’t it?

Price

PandaDoc

APRIL 12, 2022

Example: 40 positive responses / 60 total responses X 100 = 67%). Software with high functionality, speed, and simplicity can be more readily adapted into a customer’s business model and can even boost their total revenue. 08 x 100 = 8%. Contraction / Downgrade. Making it actionable. Average Revenue Per User (ARPU).

Customers

SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function. That doesn’t mean to say, you’re going to do away with the functions. Jay Snyder: That’s an enablement exercise that is not to be minimized, right? I mean, what do they do?

Retail

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Awesome revenue growth on the X axis, awesome revenue retention on the Y. And I think it comes out of the 80s and 90s and how we used to sell with shelfware. It was all about getting the contract. We really only know how to sell the mid market companies through inbound demand gen. That’s easy. We sold software.

Growth

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

Greenhouse followed a similar path to Talkdesk and should cross $10 million ARR later this year, up from almost nothing at the start of the year. They all started the same day and they sat next to me watched me sell for a month and then I turned them loose. What I mean is that even to sell let’s say, to a customer in London.

Price

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Sometimes we’re not as founders, sometimes founders sell their company because they don’t end up being deeply passionate about what it does. So sell your product. X this year. You don’t have to do every single function to still get a customer. I’m going to go from 2 to 5 or 2 to 6.”

Quota

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

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Process

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor. ” They’d show up and try and squeeze up EBITDA and try and sell you for an EBITDA multiple. ” Right?

Strategize

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

We shut down something called the Evernote market which was selling physical goods, sunset some nice products like Evernote food which had nice followings, but I felt were distracting from the larger priorities. I had the good fortune to be at Google X for a time and be surrounded by just amazing human beings.

E-commerce